Portable, shade, and curtain holder.



J. J. STIFFEY.

PORTIERBSHADE, AND CURTAIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7, IQIT.

1 ,266,079. Patented May 14, 1918.

IIIIIIIII' INVENTOR WITNESSES Jm I JAMES JULIUS manner, or oonnntnuon, rnnnsrnvania; renames, snare, its onarem Herman.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 7, 1917. Serial no.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES Jmus Srrr- FEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Conemaugh, in the county of Gambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Portiere, Shade, and'Curtain Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to holders for shades and curtains, to provide a device which may be applied to a window casing without the necessity of screws or nails to firmly hold it in place, the device having means which may be elongated within the therein, and the cramping means is also employed for the purpose of holding brackets to the window casing, which brackets are designed to support a curtain pole, and, moreover, are provided with shade holding devices adjustable to accommodate shade rollers of different lengths, while the cramping device is susceptible of use by itself for installation in door openings to support portieres, the cramping device being of peculiar construction for adjustment as to length and at the same time not only clamp the brackets against the wood work of the door or window frame, but engaging the wood Work so as to prevent turning of the cramping device, or slipping thereof.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, with the further understanding that while the drawings show a practical form of the invention, the latter is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications come Within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a small portion ofthe upper part of a window frame with the invention applied.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal diametric section of the cramping or clamping member with some parts shown in elevation.

Fig. 3 is an elevation show' cation of the clamping or cramping mem r as a portiere pole.

Fi 4 and 5 are perspective views of the combined brackets and curtain holdersto be and its object is the purpose of thepole may casing to efiect a crampingpurpose may be from the block the ap liby the unscrewing of the stem 5 from Fatented May at, rate.- 166,970.

assoc1ated with the extension pole forming the cramping device.

Referring to the drawings there is shown an extension pole 1 composed of two tubular members 2, 3, respectively, the member 3 being of smaller diameter than the member 2 and telescoping therein, and also constituting the longer one of the two members in the particular showing of the. drawings. lie for short lengths the pole 1 may have its members 2 and 3 of about equal length, be accomplished by having the member 3 longer than the member 2. The member 3 is provided at the end entering the member 2 with a plug et, threaded toreceive a threaded stem 5 extending longitudinallylof the member 2 in the longitudinal axis thereof and supported atone end by a head or plug 6 in that end of the member 2 remote from that entered by the member 3. In the particular showing of Fig. 2 the plug 6 is indicated as made fast to the member 2 by a rivet 7, but it will be understood that any other means for the employed, such as crimping, screw -thread1ng, brazing, soldering or otherwise. lug 6 is provided on the end remote from the stem 5 with an axially extended stud 8 forming a pivot or-pintle for a block 9 to turn on, the stud 8ibeing conveniently headed, as indicated at. 10, to retain the block 9 thereon. 0n opposite sides of the stud 8 the block 9 is provided with projecting pins 11. v

That end 0 the pole section ,3 remote plug 12 brazed or otherwise secured to the member 3 and also having-projecting 'pins or studs 13 on opposite sides of its longitudinal axis and corresponding to the pins or studs 11. The pins or studs 11 and 13 have their free ends more or less pointed so they may be readily. forced into the wood work of a window frame 14, as in Fig. 1, or a door frame 15, as in Fig. 3. With such an arrangement the pole 1 may be located in the frame 14 or 15, as the case may be and when the been suitably the pole may dinal axis in positioned the member 2 of be turned about its longitua direction to extend the polls t e nut 4. The turning of the member 2 is permitted because of its fit upon the member 3, and the swivel connection between the or nut 4: ,is closed by apins or studs 11 and 13 have;

blocks 6 and 9 due to the stud 8. As the stem 5 unscrews from the nut 4 the pins or studs 11 and 13 are forced into the wood until they can enter it no farther, and as soon as the begin to enter the wood the turning of -t e pole-member 3 and the block 9 ceases Ultimately the pressure is sulficient to prevent furt er rotation of the pole member 2 and the parts become firmly lodged in the frame. In the showing of Fig. 3 the pole 1 is utilizable by itself as a portire pole and needs no further description in this respect. The pole may be taken down at any time without the use of any kind of tools and without noticeable marring of the door frame in which it is lodged, since the studs 11 and 13 in actual practice need not exceed about one-sixteenth of an inch in length where entering the wood and about the same diameter.

In the case of a window such as shown in Fig. 1, where the frame 14 is indicated, there are provided two brackets 16 and 17, which may be exactly alike, except that they are made in rights and lefts, since they are designed to be located on op osite sides of the window frame 14. Eac bracket has a fiat basic portion 18 with perforations 19 therethrough spaced apart and of appropriate size to receive the studs 11 or 13, which, when the pole 1 is to be used in connection with the brackets 16 and 17, are long enough to not only pass through the basic members 18, but to enter for a short distance, say, one-sixteenth of an inch, more or less, into the wood of the frame against which. the plates 18 are forced by the elongation of the pole 1.

In this manner the plates 18 become pressure or friction plates for the wood work, as well as forming the base ortions of the brackets 16 and 17, and being of greater area thanthe block 9 and plug 12, protect the wood work from harm. Each bracket 16 and 17 has an extended arm 20 terminating at the end remote from the base 18 in a hook 21 suitably sha ed and located to receive a curtain pole o? customary kind. At a portion of the basic member 18 of each bracket there is formed an incompletely closed tubular guide 22, although, of course, the tube may be a complete tube. In the particular showing of the drawings the tube is of rectangular cross-section with two of its sides longer than the other two sides, and is arranged at a slight an le to the lane of the plate like base 18. itted to side in each tube 22 is a flat bar 23 terminating at one end in an angle vextension 24 with an angle extension of onebar provided with an e ongated socket 25 and a similarly elongated passage 26 to receive the winding ends of sprin shade rollers, whilethe extension 24 of t e other bar 23 has round passages 27 for the pintle ends of .bars 23 in the spring shade rollers remote from the winding ends. By arrangin the tubular guides 22 so as to be at a sight angle to the horizontal in the installed device, the bars 23 have always a tendency when mounted on a window frame to move toward the middle of the window, thus bringing the extensions .24 toward each other. Now, when a curtain roller is mounted in the extensions 24 of the shade carrying bars 23, with the shade roller spaced'awa tubes 22, the tendency o the bars 23 .is to approach each other, bringing the angular extensions 24 toward each .other, and at the same time there is a tendency to cram the ides22, forany ten ency to spread the s iade holding bars 23 away from each other results in a cramping of these bars in the uides 22 because of the angular relation of theextensions 24 to the direption of travel of the bars 22 in the When the device is. installed in a window frame, as in Fig. 1, the studs 11 and 13 are caused-to pass through the erforations 19 and by extending the bar 1 t e plate-like bases of the brackets 16 are forced into intimate contact with the wood work of the window frame 14 and. not only cramp the basic lates 18 tightly against the wood work, ut the stu s 11 and 13 are forced slightl into the wood work, but sufliciently to hol all the parts against any possibility Y roller may be removed and replaced without the necessity of the use of any tools whatever, or the manipulation of any looking means. The whole device may be from the guide readily applied, or as readily dismantled 1 by the simple expedient of turnin the pole member 2 about the longitudina axis of the pole in a. direction to screw the stem-5 into the pole member 3, thus shortening the effective length of the pole until the studs 11 and 13 are withdrawn from engaging relation to the wood work of the frame, whereupon the whole structure may be removed from the window frame, the use of any tools whatever being entirely needless.

While the device of the invention may be made of any suitable material, the pole 1' may be readily constructed of tubular material of suflicient gage to be strong, yet 1i ht, and the brackets 16 and 17 may be rea ily stamped out of sheet metal, of which material the guides 22 may also be formed. The

shade roller supports 23 are readily formed out of flat bar metal, or any other suitable material, and the entire device is susceptible of manufacture in most part from structural materials obtainable upon the market, thus avoiding the necessity of devising and installing expensive machinery for the production of the device.

at is claimed is:

1. A shade and curtain holder provided with an extension clamping pole comprising two telescoping members, and brackets with hook portions for receiving a curtain pole, each bracket terminating in a bearing plate, the extension pole having a plurality of projecting studs at each end and each bracket having passages for the studs, with the studs longer than the thickness of the plate ends of the brackets, whereby the shade and curtain holder is secured in a window frame solely by the projecting studs and because of the elongation of the clamping pole.

2. A device of the class described comprising plate-like members for engaging a window frame, each plate-like member having a tubular guide at an angle to the plane of the plate-like member with each guide rising away from the other guide when in the installed position, means for securing the plate-like members to a window frame, and shade-roller holding devices each comprising a bar carried by and freely movable lengthwise through a respective guide at an angle to the bar carried by the other guide and each bar terminating at the end remote from the other bar in an angle extension having means for receiving a corresponding end of a shade roller, the angular relation of the bars to each other being such that the shade roller holding devices cramp in the guides when subjected to forces tending to move the bars away one from the other in a straight line.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES JULIUS STIFFEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. SIGGERS, ANNIE MYERS. 

